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Panpsychism vs physics | Philip Goff

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is There a Clash With Strong Emergentism and Neuro Science?

Strong emergentism, panpsychism is a view not about physics. It's a view that these new forms of consciousness emerge with the brain and weren't there all along in the basic physics. The more i've talked to neuro scientists and read neuro science, i just don't think we are anywhere near knowing enough about the brain to know one way or another. Each pixle of an f m or i image corre it's a very low resolution - each pixle corresponds to five point five million bronz. We're only 70 % of the way through putting together a complete connectome of a maggot's brain with its ten thousand urons,. whereas the human brain

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